Craig Munro is the Master Craftsman and production Director for Wallace Bagpipes, Glasgow, Scotland. He is also an instructor for The College of Piping and teaches at their Winter School in Germany and also the US Summer School. Craig will also be presenting to you a detailed insight into the making of bagpipes. His “Understand & Appreciate Your Bagpipes” lecture takes you on a journey back to the very first African Blackwood seeds being planted in Tanzania, through to the harvesting and manufacturing stage. He has travelled in demand throughout Europe and as far as Australia entertaining audiences and leaving them amazed at how much goes into a set of bagpipes behind the scenes. Craig has played in Grade 1 now for a total of 7 years after joining Shotts & Dykehead at the age of 15. He has since played with Dysart & Dundonald, The Clan Gregor Society and was Pipe Major of Clydebank Pipe Band coming runners up in the Grade 3A Scottish, European and World Pipe Band Championships in 2008 who were then promoted to Grade 2 after his first year in charge. He has now returned to play with the award winning House of Edgar Shotts & Dykehead Pipe Band. Listen to Craig play
See Craig's recent interview with STV-Scotland.

Gerry Rooney is the founder and owner of Pipeline Celtic Themes. He has been piping since the 1970’s receiving his tuition at the College of Piping under Fred Morrison, Sr., P/M Angus J. McClellan, and P/M Angus MacDonald, M.B.E. He has successfully competed in competitions both in America and Scotland during his piping career. For ten years, he served as the piping instructor at West Point Military Academy and continues to give piping tuition.

P/M Donald Lindsay of the Invermark College of Piping in Petersburg, NY is America’s first, full time professional piper. His principal piping instruction came from George Bell, Seumas MacNeill, Thomas Pearston, John MacFadyen, Robert Brown and Robert Nicol. Donald served with the United States Air Force Pipe Band in Washington, D.C. and has been a central figure in founding multiple pipe bands, including the East Coast’s Grade I Oran Mor. He became the first North American piper to win a prize at the “majors” in Scotland and went on to win the Argyllshire Gathering Silver Medal in 1986, and on January 9, 2010, attained Piper of the Day at the Oran Mor Indoor competitions, winning both the Professional Piobaireachd and Hornpipe and Jig competitions, and finishing 2nd in the Professional MSR. Donald and his father founded the Invermark College of Piping in 1961. He has conducted annual Piping and Drumming Workshops every summer since then. He enjoys teaching students and bands of all levels. He has just re-released Canntaireachd, a self –study course in Nether Lorn Canntaireachd.